Hidden beehives help combat illegal logging along Kenya’s coastline

Dressed in protective clothing and armed with a smoker, Peter Nyongesa walks through mangroves to monitor his beehives along the Indian Ocean coastline.

The 69-year-old Nyongesa recalls how he would plead unsuccessfully with loggers to spare the mangroves or cut only the mature ones while leaving the younger ones intact.

“But they would retort that the trees do not belong to anyone but God,” he says.

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